Quick development can be accomplished by using Bootstrap with the Underscores framework. Underscores.me is a vanilla, “no styles included”, framework for starting your developent of a WordPress theme. I use Bootstrap to provide the styling functionality. In order to get started, we first need to get the two working together. Check out my post in combining
Groundhogs can take you down July 3rd, 2015 was my first motorcycle accident. I was traveling alone in the back roads just south of a main town hunting geocaching locations. I had my helmet and jacket and the ride was beautiful. A short ways ahead, I saw a groundhog peak out from the side of
Picked up a really cool medallion to add to my motorcycle from The Masonic Exchange. They sell many different items of Masonic interest and I liked the “In Memory of Hiram Abiff” auto emblem and thought it would look pretty cool on my air cleaner. I talked to another rider who already had this very
Updated 5/4/2016: See below My son went into the Navy, so I know have his small dog. I love the little thing, even though I really prefer larger dogs. Well, she was still in need of a spay so I took her to the vet. Afterwards, they put her on antibiotics and some pain meds.
So, I have been very busy lately with my second job and also taking a class on full stack web development on coursera.org. The problem, is I have far too many ideas in my head and no real direction to speak of. I do not have one topic that I am good at, but many
Research Similar Sites In order to better understand how you compare, research similar sites to see what might be missing that you could capitalize on for your readers. Not every site should have the same information, and each should offer up some useful bit of information that might not be found somewhere else. Your readers
Topic List When we first start our blogs, for the most part we still do not know what we really want to talk about. Planning ideas on topics should really happen prior to starting the blog or well in the beginning stages. It is far too easy to get into a state of confusion and
Identify your user This is not an easy step. The user of your website is not likely going to be the “Ideal” user you are thinking about, and most of all YOU are not the example of the user that will likely use or find your site. While it is easy to design based upon
Local development server I have tried various ways of creating a local development environment for me to test my website ideas, most of which seemed highly technical and took me days of research. I don’t have the time to learn all the aspects of setting up a server, and I am always looking for new
Theme Development Overview Practicing theme development over the last two years for a couple websites has been exciting and difficult at various times. These themes were designed for a specific purpose and not well tuned to be used out in the wild. In the process of creating the themes I researched for days (months) for useful sites that
